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Brahea salvadorensis

Brahea salvadorensis
Photo: Gerson1320, CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Arecaceae (Palm family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SE. El Salvador to Nicaragua
Climate
wet tropical

About

Brahea salvadorensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae.

Where it grows

B. salvadorensis is a rare species, found in the dry, rocky slopes, and sometimes in pine and oak forests, at an elevation of 800 to 1600 meters of the north-central zone of El Salvador and in Nicaragua. Flowering occurs in August.

Other Brahea plants

Sinaloa hesper palm · Mexican Blue Palm · Rock palm · Apak Palm · Guadalupe palm · Brahea pimo · Brahea

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Brahea salvadorensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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